3Angels Livable Communities Initiative

Boosting living standards and intellectual development to unlock eternal decision-making

VISION 2025

On February 27, 2015, 3AngelsLCI launched its VISION 2025 in commemoration of Ellen G. White's new strategy she visioned on February 27, 1910. As the 105-year anniversary of that new strategy, February 27 became the key date to launch the VISION 2025 which aims to bring that new strategy to life.

Centers of Influence

Centers of Influence are one part of the Ellen G. White's twin-model strategy of community development and humanitarian endeavors for reaching all cities, towns and villages worldwide. These pictures shows a center of influence in development in Phoenix, AZ.

Outpost Centers

Outpost Centers are the other part of Ellen G. White's twin-model strategy. The services at the Outpost Centers and Centers of Influence are to complement each other.

Community-based Agriculture

This Hub of Influence is demonstrating how home-based agriculture, a key component of Ellen G. White's strategy, can still be implemented within a city, even a desert-city like Phoenix, AZ. Home-based agriculture has various benefits to community well-being including economic empowerment, healthy exercise, access of sunlight and fresh air, environmental conservation, food security, etc.

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Apr 5, 2014

d'Sozo: Reversing the Worst Evil by Dave Fiedler

eBook's pages:  359;

d'Sozo: Reversing the Worst Evil deserves to be read again at least twice. This is because the author has painstakingly made hundreds of references to historical sources which he housed for a reader under one book. I encourage the reader to find and study the historical documents to which the author refers. This book may prove to be the ultimate "textbook" for the most serious researchers and missionaries seeking to implement the true Isaiah 58 medical missionary work which Ellen G. White advocated. 

A reader will be able to understand the importance of "d'Sozo" which is the combining of medical missionary work with ministreal work to properly reveal the gospel to humanity worldwide. As Dave Fiedler shows, a number of "entities" depend on the proper revelation of the gospel using medical missionary work. For instance, the author argues that suffering humanity depends on d'Sozo, the Loud Cry and Latter Rain future events depend on it, and even the Godhead is depending on it too (to finish the Great Controversy). Additionally, Dave Fiedler has put a context around these "plain and boring" historical source documents showing a rare storytelling skill that most of can only but envy. The book features historical characters and institutions including Dr. John H. Kellogg, Ellen G. White, Alfred W. and Emma Semmens, Sister Louise, John O. Corliss, John A. Burden, John H. N. Tindall, W. D. Frazee, Battle Creek Sanitarium, Avondale College, American Medical Association (AMA), and the College of Medical Evangelists (Loma Linda University). 

The book details the necessity of the Isaiah 58 humanitarian work to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's relevance. The name of the book is based on the following quotation in which Ellen G. White shows that the Seventh-day Adventist Church's failure to implement d'Sozo causes a separation of medical missionaries and ministers. 

"My brethren, the Lord calls for unity, for oneness. We are to be one in the faith. I want to tell you that when the gospel ministers and the medical missionary workers are not united, there is placed on our churches the worst evil that can be placed there. Our medical missionaries ought to be interested in the work of our conferences, and our conference workers ought to be as much interested in the work of our medical missionaries." — Manuscript 46, 1904.

Therefore, Ellen G. White has indicated that this failure plunges the churches into "the worst evil" and robs suffering humanity of the greatest humanitarian demonstration of love which Jesus longs to reveal to them. Dave Fiedler's goal is to urge the reader to seek to "reverse this worst of evils."

Also, after reading Dave Fiedler and Larry Cook's own personal experiences in "reversing the worst evil" in this book, visit www.adventistcitymissions.org and read about their short but amazing demonstration of the d'Sozo concept in the 21st Century.

Click here to buy a copy of the book www.remnantpublications.com


Mar 31, 2012

The Three Angels Messages of Revelation 14.6-12 (1892) by J. N. Andrews

Book's Pages: 141;

Since my friends and I are launching 3Angels Livable Communities Initiative (3AngelsLCI) Global, I thought it would be important to read the history of what the 3 Angels Messages mean. J. N. Andrews and his colleagues, such as Ellen G. White, wrote extensively about the 3 Angels Messages. 

In summary, they argued that the 3 Angels Messages are God's last great messages of mercy "to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people" Revelation 14:6.  These 3 Messages of mercy are proclaimed by the church and they are also revealed by the life of church members who then demonstrate the love of God by dedicating their lives "to loose the chains of injustice … to set the oppressed free and break every yoke… to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter … to clothe [the naked], and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood." (Isaiah 58:6-7).


The spirit of the message of Isaiah 58 underlies the goals of 3AngelsLCI. When you get a chance, visit 3AngelsLCI Global Humanitarian News to read about humanitarian issues from all over the world.


Click here to read The Three Angels Messages of Revelation 14:6-12 by J. N. Andrews (1892)

Feb 3, 2012

Reading Progress: Slow but Steady!


I started the challenge some time around November, 2011. Currently, I have finished reading 12 books, which total 2,801 pages. That is nowhere close to where I should be. The inertia at the beginning was tough but now that I'm a few months into the challenge, I'm gaining momentum. To stay on course, I need to have read about 200,000 pages (or about 500 books) by December 2012. You can tell I've got a lot of catching up to do. A luta continua!!! (The struggle continues!) Here is the list of the 12 books I finished reading.

Education by Ellen G. White



 Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi by The National Academies


The Fourth Dilemma - P. E. Barkhuizen


Miracles of My Life: Autobiography of J. N. Loughborough


Individuality in Religion by A. T. Jones


Success through Failure: Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski


Welfare Ministry by Ellen G. White


Reaping the Whirlwind by Joe Crews


What Every Adventist Should Know About 1888: An overview of events and issues that made the  Minneapolis General Conference session so important in church history by Arnold Valentin  Wallenkampf


Christ Our Righteousness by E. J. Waggoner


Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know by David Apgar

    Jan 30, 2012

    Why do a 1 Million Page Challenge?


    So why would someone do such a challenge? What's the motivation behind this challenge? Am I just crazy? Don't worry, I'm not crazy! I've decided to do this because I believe it will enrich my life a lot so that I can achieve my long-term goals. Basically, I have huge goals for my life (those who know me fully understand what I mean... very huge goals) and I'm going to do whatever I can to see them to fruition. This challenge will help me achieve my objectives in the following areas:
    1. I will launch my career with an amazing employer and I look forward to doing great things for both my employer and my employer's clients. This career gives me a wonderful opportunity to make a huge global impact. It is going to be exciting and challenging, I'm sure.
    2. My goal is to be a global citizen who will be a lover of humanity in heart, soul, and action (strength). I want to turn the world upside down... positively. By the time I retire (if I retire) my efforts need to have impacted billions of lives. This sounds impossible so you may have gotten the hint that... I'm on a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE! 
    3. I'm part of a global organization that has a mission to reach every individual on this planet. How do you reach 7,000,000,000 (billion) people and leave a positive impression/impact in their lives? This is another "mission impossible"! I hope that when I finish this challenge, I will have some answers that are actionable for this global organization. (Then again, in ten years we might be talking of 8 or 10 billion people.)
    Anyway, by this time it should be clear that I have some major goals in life and I could use all the ideas I can get. I apologize that the ideas above are vague; it's not necessary to get into the details at this time.

    Launch of the 1 Million Page Challenge Blog

    In the next 10 years (actually 9 because 2011 is gone), I'm going to be busy but I will certainly enjoy it. I'll use this blog to reflect on the books, articles and journals I will be reading. Be warned, I read very different topics that most people. You might not find a single fiction book here... maybe! I like to stay in real life (kind of...). We'll see how this goes. Wish me well, please! :) Ok, I'm heading back to study for my tax quiz. Yes, I'm still a student... for a few more months.